SupportLogic

How GitLab Customer Support uses SupportLogic

SupportLogic is a support experience management platform that uses predictive and generative AI to help companies improve their customer support operations and maximize revenue retention.

Currently, at GitLab we use SupportLogic for:

  • Ticket notifications and alerts.
  • Sentiment analysis.
  • Identifying tickets that are likely to escalate.

We are still exploring and identifying other use cases for SupportLogic.

Getting started

Training to get started will be made available soon.

Use cases

Ticket notifications and alerts

My Alerts (GitLab SupportLogic) can be configured to send notifications and alerts based on conditions you define. Some example use cases are:

  • Notification when a new ticket is submitted by specific customers.
  • Alerts when a customer uses profanity in a ticket assigned to one of your direct reports.
  • Alert for tickets where the customer has responded and we have taken no action after 5 days
Stale NRT alert configuration

A “stale NRT” alert can be configured for any tickets where the customer has responded, 5 days have passed and we have not responded to them.

NOTE: The following instructions assume you have already set up appropriate virtual teams of Support Engineers in SupportLogic.

To set up this alert:

  1. Go to My Alerts in SupportLogic
  2. Click on + New Alert
  3. Select Standard Alert and press Create
  4. Give the Alert a name by clicking on the pencil beside the default Alert x name
  5. Leave the Trigger configuration set to all conditions
  6. Click on the Support Engineer Alert Condition on the right hand side panel and find your virtual team, or the virtual team you want to monitor. Click on that team and it will be added as condition 1
  7. Click the Last Ticket Activity Alert Condition on the right hand side panel and select Inbound
  8. Populate the and was __ hours ago section with 120 (this is 5 days)
  9. Drag that condition into the box for the 2nd trigger condition
  10. In Notification Method - we only have the ability to alert using email, so select Send alerts to me via Email
  11. You can add additional recipients if desired
  12. Choose whether you also want to alert the ticket owner (assignee) or not
  13. The default Payload gives sufficient information in the email alert, but if you want to add additional details, you can add these

The following image shows the configuration.

Stale NRT Alert configuration

  • Alert for Escalated or Likely to escalate tickets
Escalation alert configuration

The escalation alert can be configured for any ticket that is already escalated or it is likely to.

NOTE: The following instructions assume you have already set up appropriate virtual teams of Support Engineers in SupportLogic.

To set up this alert:

  1. Go to My Alerts in SupportLogic
  2. Click on + New Alert
  3. Select Standard Alert and press Create
  4. Give the Alert a name by clicking on the pencil beside the default Alert x name
  5. Leave the Trigger configuration set to all conditions
  6. Click on the Support Engineer Alert Condition on the right hand side panel and find your virtual team, or the virtual team you want to monitor. Click on that team and it will be added as condition 1
  7. Click the Likely to Escalate and the Escalated Escalation Activity on the right hand side panel and drag them to the left
  8. Choose any of the Sentiments you would like to be alerted about (e.g Urgency, Critical Issue, CAll request, Confusion) from the right hand side and drag them to the left
  9. In Notification Method - we only have the ability to alert using email, so select Send alerts to me via Email
  10. You can add additional recipients if desired
  11. Choose whether you also want to alert the ticket owner (assignee) or not
  12. The default Payload gives sufficient information in the email alert, but if you want to add additional details, you can add these

The following image shows the configuration.

Escalation Alert configuration

SupportLogic KB: https://support.supportlogic.com/support/solutions/articles/73000566779-my-alerts

Ticket sentiment analysis and management

The Console (GitLab SupportLogic) provides an overview of tickets highlighted by SupportLogic through sentiment analysis.

The Backlog (GitLab SupportLogic) page helps with ticket management by showing a list of tickets based on the filters you set.

Tracking ticket escalations

SupportLogic offers an Escalations Board (GitLab SupportLogic) that tracks tickets which have been marked as:

  • Likely to Escalate: Predicted by sentiment analysis as likely to lead to a customer escalation.
  • Escalation Request: Customer has used language requesting for some form of escalation.
  • Active Escalation: Tickets which have been STARred.
Last modified September 9, 2025: Update file supportlogic.md (420390db)